Watch Rip when he's on the move and takes a pass and comes to stop. His feet hit the ground about half a dozen times. Probably just as well they don't call the real rule on him.

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Yeah...that foot shuffling no call is amazing. A couple of weeks ago Rip went up off his feet into the air for a jumpshot...came back down and dribbled to the hoop. No call. Players drag their pivot foot, lift the pivot foot off the ground etc.

I'm printing this out for my 13 year old son who plays in a rec league. I don't see the kids getting this much leeway.

Yeah...that foot shuffling no call is amazing. A couple of weeks ago Rip went up off his feet into the air for a jumpshot...came back down and dribbled to the hoop. No call. Players drag their pivot foot, lift the pivot foot off the ground etc.

I'm printing this out for my 13 year old son who plays in a rec league. I don't see the kids getting this much leeway.

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Seriously, in that video (which I watched, as I do all the Pistons games, in super-slo-mo frame by frame), Wade picks up his dribble with his left foot in the air (ball cradled on his left hip), so his right foot is his pivot foot. He then slides that right foot about 2 feet, takes a little hop on it, then takes a step with his left, and then a step with his right.

Yeah...that foot shuffling no call is amazing. A couple of weeks ago Rip went up off his feet into the air for a jumpshot...came back down and dribbled to the hoop. No call. Players drag their pivot foot, lift the pivot foot off the ground etc.

I'm printing this out for my 13 year old son who plays in a rec league. I don't see the kids getting this much leeway.

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They mentioned in the True Hoop piece that the NBA is the only place that calls traveling that way. Continuations too, I bet.

This is absolutely asinine. First they take away the defense so a few stars can score their 40 every night. Now they are allowing traveling so the stars can score. This my friend is not basketball. Stern must go before the league loses all the purists that love the sport. I alreay know of some who left it when they took away the Piston defense. This is insanity. Makes me want to puke. Stern must go. What is his next rule? Any super star does not have to dribble the basketball?

This is absolutely asinine. ..I already know of some who left it when they took away the Piston defense...This is insanity... Makes me want to puke...Stern must go.

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I don't want to puke. I'm not even mildly surprised. Par for the course with this crappy league. Between the players, refs, and Stern, I pretty much washed my hands of this dumb A _ _ league years ago (I hang out here pretty much for other reasons).